I expect that if I don't say something about this subject I will soon be the only regular blogger in the northeastern United States who hasn't. My sympathies of course to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the dead and the injured and the families of both. The death of someone as young as Martin Richard is always especially heartbreaking. But you don't come here for the usual hearts and flowers dear reader. Let's see if we can say something not already said. We can do so if we turn our attention to the manhunt, which began in earnest Thursday evening with another crime, the murder of a security officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Late Thursday evening, Sean Collier, responding to a disturbance, was shot and killed. That set off a wild 24-hour period that ended with one of Collier's murderers dead and the other in custody. Perhaps this is something of a take-away. We're often told that government is necessary to keep people ...